Cooking Gas Dumped For Charcoal Stove In Kano

Inflation in Kano State causes families to dump gas cylinder. 

Numerous family units in Kano previously using cooking gas, say they have now depended on coal stoves because of the climb in the cost increment of the product.

The costs of kerosene and cooking gas have bounced cosmically as of late, coming about to numerous families falling back to less expensive options, including firewood. 

Malam Bello Abdullahi, a civil servant, who remarked on the improvement, expressed in Kano on Wednesday that he had been using gas for over two decades yet needed to stop since he could no longer bear the cost. "I can't imagine buying a 12.5kg cylinder at the cost of N5,500 and who knows whether it will end at that value." 

Another client, Dattijo Alhaji, said that his family conveyed changing to coal stove since coal was affordable. He said that as a retired person, he expected to control his accounts to survive the recession. So also, Malama Bilkisu Usman, a house wife, additionally disclosed to NAN that she exhorted her significant other to buy coal stove with a specific end goal to have reserves for different needs. She said that she had been buying 5kg cylinder of gas N1,500 for as far back as three years. As per her, the cost has shot up bit by bit to N2,100 inside the previous year alone. 

Different occupants, while discrediting the expansion in the cost of cooking gas, revealed to NAN that they had additionally relocated to using coal stoves until the circumstance moved forward.